Mudgalapurana 2.28: kaśyapasṛṣṭivarṇanaṃ nāma aṣṭāviṃśatitamo'dhyāyaḥ

Homage to the glorious Gaṇeśa.

Mudgala said: / King Dakṣa, son of the Pracetases, performed excellent austerities; / after a hundred years, the Gaṇādhyakṣa was pleased and became the giver of a boon.

By the boon granted by Gaṇeśa, he, having attained perfection, created creatures: / gods, yakṣas, men, piśācas, and others by the thousands.

Having created various creatures, they then increased, bringing good conduct; / that Prajāpati created sexual creation upon the earth.

From him were born ten thousand sons of great splendor; / Dakṣa himself said to them: “Produce offspring, being endowed with austerities.”

Saying “So be it,” having first bowed to him, they respectfully departed for austerities. / On their path, Brahmā’s son Nārada came suddenly.

He spoke to them according to rule about the eternal path of yoga; / joined with it, they all did not produce an excellent creation.

Abandoning the path of action, they became Gāṇapatyas; / they all went wandering at their own will, free from delusion, having conquered their senses.

Learning that his sons were lost, Dakṣa begot once again / in Asiknī a thousand sons endowed with splendor.

Glad at heart, he said to them: “Produce the best creation through asceticism.” / Having bowed to him first, they respectfully went to the forest.

Again, Nārada likewise imparted to them pure knowledge. / They too, all endowed with yoga, departed, roaming at their own will.

Learning the terrible news, Dakṣa, filled with wrath, / cursed Nārada, the son of Brahmā, who was most pious:

“You have destroyed my sons from the path of action; / though established in the order of classes and life-stages, they were indeed made to fall away.

Therefore, wicked Nārada, you shall remain without offspring; / you will not be able to stay [in one place] for more than two muhūrtas.

Wherever on earth, in heaven, or in the realm of the underworld, / you shall wander, O very wicked one, by my curse; of this there is no doubt.”

Having thus cursed him, Dakṣa himself went respectfully to Brahmā. / Having bowed to that lord of the universe, he spoke with humility:

“Lord of the gods, by which path should I make creation? Tell me that. / Out of evil intent, Nārada made my creation fruitless.”

Then Brahmā said to him: “Beget fair-eyed daughters.” / Saying, “So be it,” he went to his own abode and began to create.

Full of splendor, Dakṣa begot sixty daughters in Vīriṇī, / fair of form, highly fortunate, the mothers of all embodied beings.

He gave ten to Dharma, thirteen to Kaśyapa, / twenty-seven to the Moon, and four to Ariṣṭanemi.

He gave two to Bahuputra, two affectionately to Kṛśāśva, / and likewise two to Aṅgiras; and I shall declare their details.

Marutvatī, Vasu, Yāmī, Lambā, Bhānu, Arundhatī, / Saṅkalpā, Muhūrtā, Sādhyā, and Viśvā the lovely lady—

these were the ten wives of Dharma; hear of their sons: / the Viśvedevas were born of Viśvā, and Sādhyā gave birth to the Sādhyas.

The Marutvants were born of Marutvatī, and the Vasus are recorded from Vasu; / from Bhānu were all the Bhānus, and from Muhūrtā the Muhūrtakas.

From Lambā were born Nāda and Ghoṣa, and born of Yāmī was Nāgavīthika; / everything uneven on the earth was born of Arundhatī.

From Saṅkalpā came the Saṅkalpas; these are recorded as the sons of Dharma. / (

khaṇḍa 2, adhyāya 28, page 59) By their sons and daughters the whole world was multiplied.

Āpa, Dhruva, Soma, Dhanya, Anala, Anila, / Pratyūṣa, and Prabhāsa are celebrated as the eight Vasus.

Aditi, Diti, Kadru, Ariṣṭā, Surasā, Danu, / Surabhi, Vinatā, Tāmrā, Krodhavaśā, Irā,

Muni, and Khaśā, knower of dharma—hear of their sons: / Vivasvān, Dhātṛ, Bhaga, Tvaṣṭṛ, and Aṃśa,

and the gods beginning with Varuṇa—all those are the sons of Aditi. / All the Daityas are recognized in the treatises as sons of Diti.

And likewise the sons of Danu are recorded as the Dānavas headed by Tāra: / Tāra, Vipracitti, Śambara, Kapila,

Svarbhānu, Saṅkara, and powerful Vṛṣaparvan; / I have mentioned the foremost asuras, the principal Dānavas.

From Surasā came a thousand serpents; / Ariṣṭā gave birth to a thousand Gandharvas.

The great Nāgas beginning with Śeṣa were Kadru's sons, O Prajāpati; / and Tāmrā gave birth to six fair-eyed daughters:

Śukī, Śyenī, Bhāsī, Sugrīvā, Granthikā, and Śuci; / from their sons and offspring the entire flock of birds came into being.

Surabhi gave birth to female buffaloes and cows, O Prajāpati; / Irā [bore] trees, creeping plants, vines, and all kinds of grasses.

The Yakṣas and Puṇyajanas are declared to be the sons of Muni; / Krodhavaśā gave birth to the terrible horde of Rākṣasas.

Vinatā had two sons: Aruṇa and the other, Garuḍa; / Khaśā's sons were the sky-goers, the Pretas, and others, O Prajāpati.

These descendants of Kaśyapa, consisting of moving and stationary beings, / are celebrated in this Vaivasvata period, as declared by me.

The sons of Ariṣṭanemi bore the forms of Vedhas; / and the two wives of Bahuputra are recorded as having four lightnings.

And from the two wives of Aṅgiras were the sages honored by Vṛṣa; / and the son of Kṛśāśva was Praharaṇa, a god among divine sages.

At the end of a thousand yugas these are born again and again / in all the manvantaras, with the same functions and names.

Having begotten sons, Kaśyapa, the brahmin-sage, remaining unsatisfied, / practiced fierce asceticism for the sake of sons, knowing the supreme reality.

As he thus practiced austerities, two sons endowed with great majesty appeared, / Vatsara and Asita by name, both expositors of Brahman.

From Vatsara was born Naidhruva and the illustrious Raibhya; / and from Raibhya were born the Rudras, sons foremost among the radiant.

Cyavana's daughter Sumedhā, the wife of the noble Naidhruva, / gave birth to sons, the Kuṇḍapāyins.

From Asita, in Ekaparṇā, was born a son most devoted to Brahman, / Devala by name, who is recorded as a master of yoga.

Śāṇḍilya, the supreme yogin, pure, knowing the reality of all principles— / these and many other sons of Kaśyapa have been declared by me.

By remembering them, a person's desires are fulfilled; / through reciting [them]—there is no doubt here—they are proclaimed as primary forms.

Om tat sat. Thus ends the twenty-eighth chapter, named 'The Description of Kaśyapa's Creation,' in the story of Ekadanta, in the second section of the glorious and venerable Maudgala Mahāpurāṇa, the ultimate Purāṇic Upaniṣad.

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